Microsoft mistake blows up admins' inboxes with fake malware alerts

Many administrators have had a trying Monday after getting spammed out with false malware reports by Microsoft. In the last hour the Microsoft 365 service center put out an alert on Xitter, oddly, even before sending out the customary 365 Service Alert email, users complained. Others pointed out that the issue was flagged on …

[Dr Paul Taylor]

M$=spam

Whereas in the past universities ran on Unix-like machines with RFC-compliant emails, in recent years M$ has invaded.

M$ strips the RFC-compliant Received: lines and adds hundreds of lines of its own garbage and randomly labels messages as spam.

One academic email forum to which I have belonged for ages got shifted to a M$ institution. Now I can't ignore my spam folder because half the messages from that list end up there.

That is, even when their authors' direct messages arrive in the standard mailbox.

M$ breaks everything.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: M$=spam

I've seen this emerge too, now it's Outlook/Exchange and nothing else.

Managing your account by another provider is no longer an option, forwarding isn't allowed either (apparently for ' industry standards ').

So now you have to log in in k accounts, rather than have 1 (RFC compliant) provider let manage k accounts.

Mailling lists are dropped, even though it's more efficient than say slack/teams for async project discussions (slurm mailinglist is a good non-kernel example).

[Kevin McMurtrie]

Re: M$=spam

Thanks, MS, for forwarding all of these phishing e-mails from a known criminal gang. If only there was some indicator that they might be counterfeit.

X-MS-Exchange-Authentication-Results: spf=fail (sender IP is 38.107.232.119)

smtp.helo=tkgm.gov.tr; dkim=none (message not signed)

header.d=none;dmarc=fail action=none

header.from=DistrictElderlyCitizens.onmicrosoft.com;

[ChrisElvidge]

Re: M$=spam

I've regularly found messages from Microsoft in my spam box on the Outlook server. Unfortunately these are not progressed to my POP3 client..

[Strahd Ivarius]

Re: M$=spam

the Outlook server properly identify them as spam since they come from MS

[Darkk]

What a fiasco today!!

It's been a fun day dealing with this. Thankfully this was posted on Reddit way before Microsoft finally admitted this fiasco via the office 365 admin portal.

[Anonymous Coward]

Ai is working then?

Billy “no mates” Gates loves a good virus, loves a good pandemic too.

[m4r35n357]

M$ Users

You must be so proud of yourselves shovelling money to these idiots!

[PeterM42]

Microcr@p 364½ strikes again

GROAN!

[GreyWolf]

Microsnot lately? Shambles?

Is it just my impression or has there been much more lately in the way of Microsoft fuckups bad enough to reach public notice?

[Anonymous Coward]

clearly MS fault from the start

They flagged internal emails at our FI, I thought our rules broke, nope just MS doing what it does best, making customers suffer.